The wind howled most of last night and continues to do so. It is supposed to finally slack off some tomorrow morning. I looked out at my pump house a while ago and some of the shingles were lifting along the roof edge. I managed to open the storage building door against the wind, get my step ladder, and get the door shut without incident. I have kept a small stack of bricks left over from building my garage and I proceeded to stack bricks on the lifted shingles. I would place bricks, go get more and carry my ladder back from where it had blown to, stack some bricks on the shingles, and repeat. The wind was so hard it shook some of the bricks off between trips and one even fell off and hit me on the head as I was climbing the ladder. My wife called our son and he drove up and with him carrying bricks and me working the ladder we got the job finished and the only thing I lost was my cap. I had it pulled down around my ears and the wind still blew it away.
As soon as the wind gets reasonable I will glue the shingles down, stack bricks on them so the glue can set, and I've saved a roofing job. Back in my younger days when I could do my own roofing I always glued the edges down and never had a problem like this. I learned to do this from my dad. Professionals don't do it and I imagine it gives them more work. I had an adjuster gripe one time after a hail storm because he couldn't lift up any of the shingles along the edges. I pointed out that none of them had blowen off during the storm and that the roof was a goner from hail anyway and he shut up about my glue job.
